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Mergulhe no quotidiano de Vila Chã, uma freguesia de Vila do Conde, numa época em que as ruas ainda eram de terra batida, as casas eram simples e a vida transcorria ao ritmo das estações do ano. Uma

Prácticas performativas centra su atención en la ritualidad desarrollada en el espacio monástico en diferentes momentos de los siglos medievales hasta los albores de la edad moderna, por parte de diferentes "actores" y en funcionalidades diversas, desde la gestualidad de obediencia debida por los capellanes beneficiados a la abadesa, a la que se expresa en la procesion de disciplina en las cofradias andaluzas durante la Semana Santa. El presente volumen ha permitido descubrir la potencialidad de este enfoque novedoso, el de la performatividad, que pone al descubierto nuevas agencias (agency) por parte de las mujeres, el valor simbolico del objeto y del gesto, la funcionalidad de los espacios; o nuevas miradas al rico catalogo de documentos de archivo y manuscritos de los fondos monasticos.

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A riveting and important read forensically documenting the state s failings while also relating the traumatic human fallout for a whole community for whom life would never be the same again Mick Clifford Meticulously compiled and unflinching yet sensitive this is an exceptional record of a story that should never have happened Irish Independent A gripping page turner deftly balancing information analysis and human story and offers a single location where we can go to get our heads around one of the worst disasters in recent Irish history The Irish Times In 1981 the Stardust nightclub in Dublin was a beacon for the city s nightlife until it became a nightmare On that fateful Valentine s Day the dance floor became a scene of horror as flames engulfed the venue claiming the lives of 48 young people and leaving the survivors scarred forever In this gripping account the harrowing true story is revealed citing new evidence brought forward during recent inquests in the relentless pursuit of justice Through the eyes of the survivors the families and investigators compiled with meticulous research and compassionate portrayals of their voices this poignant book honours the memories of those who were lost while shedding light on the tragedy that st

The brand new book by Pen Vogler Stuffed is available now THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Book of the Year in the Daily Mail Independent Spectator and The Times & Sunday Times Finalist for the Guild of Food Writers Food Book Award 2021 Sharp rich and superbly readable Fascinating Sunday Times Utterly delicious Observer Superb Book of the Week The Times Terrific Book of the Week Guardian I loved it Monty Don A brilliant romp of a book Jay Rayner Avocado or beans on toast Gin or claret Nut roast or game pie Milk in first or milk in last And do you have tea dinner or supper in the evening In this fascinating social history of food in Britain Pen Vogler examines the origins of our eating habits and reveals how they are loaded with centuries of class prejudice Covering such topics as fish and chips roast beef avocados tripe fish knives and the surprising origins of breakfast Scoff reveals how in Britain we have become experts at using eating habits to make judgements about social background Bringing together evidence from cookbooks literature artworks and social records from 1066 to the present Vogler traces the changing fortunes of the food we encounter today and unpicks the aspirations and prejudices of the

The very best sort of panoramic portrait David Kynaston The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history yet they are that history at its climax Alwyn Turner sets the record straight bringing its characters strains and stresses brilliantly to life Simon JenkinsWhen Queen Victoria died in 1901 it was the end of an era Many later remembered the era that followed as the long afternoon of an empire where the sun never set Yet the Edwardians knew the country was in a state of flux the seismic change that they felt would transform modern Britain forever In Little Englanders Alwyn Turner reconsiders the Edwardian era as a time of profound social change bringing their history alive through music halls and male beauty contests the 1908 Summer Olympics and the real Peaky Blinders In this colourful detailed and hugely entertaining social history Turner shows that though the golden Victorian age was in the past the birth of modern Britain was only just beginning

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERBest Books of the Year, GuardianThe poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgeryFrom the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thousands of soldiers sustained facial injuries. Medical advances meant that more survived their wounds than ever before, yet disfigured soldiers did not receive the hero's welcome they deserved.In The Facemaker, award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the astonishing story of the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to restoring the faces - and the identities - of a brutalized generation. Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world's first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction in Sidcup, south-east England. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of doctors, nurses and artists whose task was to recreate what had been torn apart. At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero, but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits.

An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants A spectacularly enjoyable and compelling reading experience funny moving surprising and thought provoking It humanises literature in this toxic moment MAX PORTER author of Lanny Seemingly simple yet so deeply profound The Passengers is an absorbing insight into the lives and minds of so called ordinary people their hopes and fears and idiosyncrasies at a specific moment in time CLIO BARNARD director of Ali & Ava and The Essex Serpent A nation s psyche comes to the surface The Passengers is not just an oral history of the contemporary moment but drenched in mood and texture renders the country itself as a sonic collage SUKHDEV SANDHU GUARDIAN Between October 2018 and March 2021 Will Ashon collected voices people talking about their lives needs dreams loves hopes and fears all of them with some connection to the British Isles He used a range of methods including letters sent to random addresses hitchhiking referrals from strangers and so on He conducted the interviews in person on the phone over the internet or asked people to record themselves Interview techniques ranged from asking people to tell him a secret to choo

From the end of WWI to the 1950s a group of British writers and artists including George Orwell Barbara Jones and Dylan Thomas forged a politics that resisted the empty idealism of their age Celebrating the wisdom and pragmatism of ordinary life they offered a remedy for the destructive polarization that afflicts us again today

The people and publications at the root of a national obsession In the century between the accession of Elizabeth I and the restoration of Charles II a horticultural revolution took place in England making it a leading player in the European horticultural game Ideas were exchanged across networks of gardeners botanists scholars and courtiers and the burgeoning vernacular book trade spread this new knowledge still further reaching even the growing number of gardeners furnishing their more modest plots across the verdant nation and its young colonies in the Americas Margaret Willes introduces a plethora of garden enthusiasts from the renowned to the legions of anonymous workers who created and tended the great estates Packed with illustrations from the herbals design treatises and practical manuals that inspired these men and occasionally women Willes s book enthrallingly charts how England s garden grew

Paris to New York shows how competition and cooperation between transatlantic designers and entrepreneurs built the groundwork of today s international fashion industry Véronique Pouillard tells the story of the fashion business as a negotiation between art and commerce and explores the complex relationship between these iconic fashion centers